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"By linking widely separated ecosystems in the urban-based economy of the Front Range, Brosnan notes, entrepreneurs created irrevocable environmental change and restructured the relations of the region's inhabitants with the land and with each other. Hispanic and Native American people who had lived in Colorado since long before the gold rush found themselves marginalized or displaced, foreshadowing the subsequent surrender of regional industries to the Goulds, Guggenheims and Rockefellers by the early twentieth century."--Jacket.Read more...

Abstract:

Tracing the birth of Denver and its sister cities Colorado Springs and Pueblo, this book recounts an important chapter in the transformation of the United States from a nation of traditional agricultural communities to a modern, urban, industrial society.Read more...

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

"This provocative and ably researched book should interest western, urban, and business historians." "Brosnan's work provides an important perspective on the realtionship between cities, the environment, and the legal structure designed to control the relationship between the two." "Brosnans's most original contribution is assessing the region's evolution along a north-south axis, rather than the more traditional east-west corridor. . . Brosnan has presented thoughtful, fresh perspectives of fields plowed thoroughly by her predecessors." ""Uniting Mountain and Plain" joins a growing list of outstanding books that seek to reinterpret western unrban and business history. . Brosnan has given the people of Colorado and the entire Rocky Mountain Front a historical narrative that can help them make sense of a crucially important but heretofore overlooked feature of their past." "Brosnan offers a remarkably well-researched and well-written analysis of the Colorado Front Range. . . Richly documented and superbly illustrated with well-chosen photos and the occasional map, this is an important contribution to western history, Colorado history, and the developing field of environmental history, wherein its most original contribution may lie."Read more...

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